ALUMNI NEWS Jennifer Marie Brissett has had two stories published. "Clone" is in Ripped Genes: The Biopunk Special Issue of Morpheus Tales magazine and is available for the Kindle and other eBook formats as well as in paperback. Her story "Secrets of the Sea" is in The Future Fire magazine and it's available free online! Debbie Daughetee, aka …
Dispatches from the Desk: End of Summer Edition
...President Matthew Quinn Martin and Vice-President Libby Cudmore here again with our semi-regular featured blog post. Labor Day weekend has come and gone. The bbq’s have been stowed in the garage. The white slacks have (hopefully) been folded up and dropped in the bottom drawer, and we’ve all felt what might be that last summer …
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Community News & Updates September 2012
ALUMNI NEWS Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has published her first young adult novel, Being Henry David (Albert Whitman & Co.), which will be released March 1, 2013. Visit her at http://www.calarmistead.com. Jeanette Lynes' (Popular Fiction, '05) sixth book of poetry, Archive of the Undressed, is forthcoming from Wolsak and Wynn in September 2012. The poems explore pin-up, Playboy, …
Dispatches from the Desk: August 23, 2012 – Distractions
by Libby Cudmore & Matthew Quinn Martin ...hello all, your president and vice president here with our new semi-regular featured blog post. DISTRACTIONS We’ve all been there. Maybe you are now. You sit down to write, all geared up, notes in hand, perfect story on the tips of your fingers. You’ve got the whole day …
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Meet Your SCAA Board of Directors
Matthew Quinn Martin - President (PF S'10) - Matthew's original screenplay Slingshot was made into a feature film it and is currently on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co. His prose fiction has been published in Transition Magazine, Thuglit, Beat to a Pulp Anthology, MFA/MFYou Literary Journal, JMWW, A Twist of Noir, Eastern Standard Crime, The Oddville Press, Aphelion and The Flash Fiction Offensive, as well as Arkham …
Community News & Updates August 2012
As you may have heard Stonecoast is transitioning to a printed newsletter that will be published twice a year and will likely not have room for publication announcement and other news related updates from community members. So, the SCAA is going to take over the news and updates, which will be published on a monthly …
Stonecoast Writing for Social Change Project Update
Thanks to all of you who responded with your interest in the Stonecoast Writing for Social Change project. The first step is to collect and share the stories of Stonecoast community members (students, faculty, and alumni) who are actively using writing to promote social justice. If you've been involved with work like this, I'm hoping …
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Announcing Stonecoast Writing for Social Change
One of the exciting things to come out of the recent Stonecoast alumni reunion was a new project called Stonecoast Writing for Social Change. Three of us - Jeff Kass, Amy Alvarez and Elli Meeropol – met to begin the work. Like many of you, we are compelled by injustices of our world to use …
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Life Happens: The Post-MFA Blues and the Process of Learning, Forgetting, and Remembering Again
by Matt Switliski PF W'11 While I was a student at Stonecoast, I was always excited to see alumni show up at the graduation ceremony and reception. For me, there was this unshakeable sense that, after my friends and I walked across the stage to receive our degrees, we wouldn’t see each other again. Life, …
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